User talk:Rickmaids

June 2020
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How am I supposed to add information on my own page about myself then Rickmaids (talk) 12:53, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi. Im wondering if you can help me it appears someone is using my email address for some kind of correspondence with yourself. How do I deactivate this or delete this account ? I appear to have had my email hacked. Rickmaids (talk) 13:08, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Are you saying that someone has gained control of this account, or just your email account? You have made posts both claiming to be Julian Dicks and his agent, which is it? 331dot (talk) 13:11, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi.

I have absolutely no idea what this is about. I have just checked my emails as there seemed to be lots coming through in quick succession, and have seen all these messages from Wikipedia? I don’t have a Wikipedia account as far as I am aware. I’m just getting these emails through, I’m not sure who’s replying or who’s claiming to be an agent etc. I think my email address has been incorrectly used. How do I unlink this do I contact yourselves or my email provider please? I have changed my email password now. Any advice would be appreciated. Rickmaids (talk) 13:17, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
 * You have a Wikipedia account, because you are using it right now and in order to use it you would have to know the name and password. Did you not create this account? If you changed your email password, that should resolve any issue with others accessing your email.  331dot (talk) 13:20, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
 * If you go to Special:Preferences (while logged in) you can change the preference settings for the account Rickmaids. On the "User Profile tab" just below the "Signature" section, there is a section "Email options". In this yoiu may specify the email, if any, you want associated with the Wikipedia account. This email can be used to reset the password should you lose or forget the password. Below that is an option: "Allow other users to email me". If this ids checked, any Wikipedia user may cvlock on a link (avalable on your user page and elsewhere) and send email to you. This email will generally show up with a subject line "Wikipedia email" but it will come from the individual user, only being forwarded by the Wikimedia software so that your email is not exposed to users in general. If you do not want to receive emails from other Wikipedia users through this mechanism, you can uncheck this box and save the updated preferences. DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 14:02, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I am puzzled here because this user says they don't recall having an account, yet they are using it. 331dot (talk) 14:06, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
 * That is a bit unclear, I suspect that user Rickmaids simply didn't understand that creating a Wikipedia user name and logging in was creating and using a Wikipedia account. This user may have assumed that an "account" meant getting a Wikipedia domain email, or some other thing which other sites associate with an account. I am not sure. In any case there clearly is a Wikipedia account here, and i see no indications that it is compromised. I suspect that the user simply diud not expect others to whom s/he had not directly given an email address could send email to "Rickmaids".  None of which addresses the issue of paid editing, of course. DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 14:17, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

June 2020
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Thank you. David Biddulph (talk) 12:22, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to WP:Teahouse, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. ''I reverted your removal of the thread. We don't delete questions from the Teahouse if they have been answered; it will be archived and deleted in due course.'' David Biddulph (talk) 12:44, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Hello, I'm David Biddulph. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Julian Dicks have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse. Thanks. ''You added a misplaced external link. If you intended it to be a reference, please read Help:Referencing for beginners.'' David Biddulph (talk) 12:47, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi Rickmaids! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia — it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. David Biddulph (talk) 12:48, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Paid editing
Hello Rickmaids. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Rickmaids. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. 331dot (talk) 13:06, 4 June 2020 (UTC)